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...first place, he loved the macho tradition of life aboard subs. He has always enjoyed the company of more outgoing, hard-living, salty-tongued men. Most of his closest advisers today fit that description, as did many of the men with whom he served on submarines. The spartan life aboard a submarine-the absence of many diversions-also appealed to Carter's love of work and problem solving in splendid isolation...
...Watson's crew has to operate and maintain all Harvard's facilities on $3 million--the same amount it had to play with three years ago, despite inflation and the additional expense of increasing facilities for women. So it isn't surprising that Watson keeps returning to the word "Spartan" in his description of the department...
...classes of about 25 inmates meet in spartan gray-walled prison classrooms for 90 minutes two nights a week for four months; graduates get certificates. Courses are taught by two-member teams of second-and third-year law students, most of them from Georgetown, who earn academic credit for their work. The young instructors-most have never been inside a prison before-also gain insight about people who really need legal help. Says Jerry Kristal, a third-year student who taught last semester: "At first we had stereotypes of what prisoners were. I learned prisoners are human...
...Does Nader really live in the house on Washington's Bancroft Place that his brother bought in 1971 for $80,000 rather than in the spartan $85-a-month room he claims as his residence? Sanford found a local resident who says he sees Nader in the neighborhood "at odd hours nearly every day." That is hardly conclusive evidence...
...Citroën and carrying his own luggage. A portly ex-professor, Barre is highly regarded in academic circles for his textbook entitled Economic Politique. Giscard called him "the best economist in France and therefore the best man to fight the inflation." Barre is expected to initiate spartan economic measures, like higher interest rates and guidelines limiting price and wage increases, in an effort to restore monetary stability. To that end, he reserved the Economy and Finance portfolio in the Cabinet for himself. On the foreign front he is likely to echo Giscard's cordial internationalism, particularly toward...